US Patent Issued to Dematic on July 14 for "Method for inbound inventory putaway" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,314, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dematic Corp. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Method for inbound inventory putaway" was invented by Timothy C. Post (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Jonathan Mulder (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for optimizing retail inventory receiving and putaway processes within a retail store. The methods include segregating items from inbound inventory loads by unloading and identifying each of the items in the load. Based on the identity of an item, a computer directs the operator to segregate each item to a putwall, such as to a container on a mobile inventory cart. A pick to ...